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A great, small production Falanghina with bright citrus, herbal, and mineral qualities that make it a great value.
Lightly filtered and fined with pea flour and clay.
About the wine: "Among the great variety of interesting white grape varieties grown in Campania are two different cultivars with the name Falanghina; Falanghina Flegrea from the Campi Flegrei (near Naples), and Falanghina Beneventana, from around Benevento, to the north-east of Naples. Both of these varieties can make delicious, distinctive wines, but the ‘cut’ and minerality of the Beneventana is particularly mouthwatering. Alexia produces the Benevento type of Falanghina. As is the often the case here in Campania, the wines don’t taste like they’re from a warm southern climate, in that they have excellent bright acidity and a strong mineral character.
About the winery: "Alexia Capolino Perlingieri is from Naples; she told me: 'it was my grandfather who started [making wine]. He was a lawyer and member of the first Italian Parliament (when Italy became a Republic in 1946 and until 1963) and he had the hobby of viticulture and making wine. When he died in 1972 (and I was born) my mother continued his work. At that time she was one of the few wine producers in Campania together with Lucio Mastroberardino and Leonardo Mustilli. I am proud to say that, since babysitting was not an option in my house, I never went to school in September and October because my mother did not have anyone to leave me with, so I spent much of my childhood in Solopaca and I still have beautiful memories of that period.’
The Perlingieri vineyards are in Solapaca, which is near Monte Taburno, at around 300 meters above sea level. 100 % estate grown, the soil is predominately clay of partly volcanic origin with many stones." - OLIVER MCCRUM IMPORTER
A great, small production Falanghina with bright citrus, herbal, and mineral qualities that make it a great value.
Lightly filtered and fined with pea flour and clay.
About the wine: "Among the great variety of interesting white grape varieties grown in Campania are two different cultivars with the name Falanghina; Falanghina Flegrea from the Campi Flegrei (near Naples), and Falanghina Beneventana, from around Benevento, to the north-east of Naples. Both of these varieties can make delicious, distinctive wines, but the ‘cut’ and minerality of the Beneventana is particularly mouthwatering. Alexia produces the Benevento type of Falanghina. As is the often the case here in Campania, the wines don’t taste like they’re from a warm southern climate, in that they have excellent bright acidity and a strong mineral character.
About the winery: "Alexia Capolino Perlingieri is from Naples; she told me: 'it was my grandfather who started [making wine]. He was a lawyer and member of the first Italian Parliament (when Italy became a Republic in 1946 and until 1963) and he had the hobby of viticulture and making wine. When he died in 1972 (and I was born) my mother continued his work. At that time she was one of the few wine producers in Campania together with Lucio Mastroberardino and Leonardo Mustilli. I am proud to say that, since babysitting was not an option in my house, I never went to school in September and October because my mother did not have anyone to leave me with, so I spent much of my childhood in Solopaca and I still have beautiful memories of that period.’
The Perlingieri vineyards are in Solapaca, which is near Monte Taburno, at around 300 meters above sea level. 100 % estate grown, the soil is predominately clay of partly volcanic origin with many stones." - OLIVER MCCRUM IMPORTER
